Burning Passion: Love Never Die

Jared shot to his feet. He strode towards them rapidly and asked in disbelief, “Ain’t that the truth? Tomboy went AWOL three years ago, and then you ghosted us too. Kasie and I were left alone here. We wondered if you ran off with Tomboy.”

Right on cue, Kasie chimed in, “Inside voice, dude. What the hell… Oh my God! Kristina?”

Kasie had a similar reaction to Jared. Finally, the five old friends were reunited. It felt like a lifetime had passed since they were all together Last. The girls kept hugging each other, and being happy that they finally saw each other face to face. They didn’t sit down at the table until the two men persuaded them to. Not only that, they didn’t care how Loud they were being, either.

During dinner, Kasie discreetly shifted her glance between Dixon and

Kristina. She didn’t want to re-open old wounds, but she had to know.

Angela’s Library

She whispered, “You’re married now, right? When did that happen? What does your husband do? And more importantly, why weren’t we at your wedding? I sent you chat requests on WeChat, but you didn’t answer back. I was hoping you’d come to mine.”

at the beer in

sorry. I dumped that account a long time ago. My husband got transferred to Singapore. He just got

other friends all

anything from her old friends. She continued to fill them in on what happened since

me to marry him because he’s rich.

herself, marrying a man 13 years her senior, and marrying

quieted down, Kristina raised her head to look at Dixon,

you. But I’m

a

other three held their breath. This was the first time they heard them talk about why they broke up. And Kristina said it in such a calm tone. So the real reason was

I think you screwed up…” Debbie couldn’t

I was poor back then. I didn’t know where my next meal was coming

to be. He was born in a poor village out